Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Losing It

Warning: This post contains sarcasm and some bitterness.

It's official. I'm losing it.

My HAIR has started to come out in handfuls, thanks to post-partum hormones. I'm really looking forward to a fashionable, fuzzy, short regrowth look for summer.

My SANITY is going. Miranda has started doing two new things this week, and let me seriously say that they better be phases that pass quickly. One is that she is screaming at the top of her lungs. No matter what I do--ignore it, punish it, explain why it's freaking annoying--she continues to do it until I successfully distract her with something else. I'm not sure what kid she learned this from, but I'm pretty sure it was one in nursery. The other thing she has been doing lately is a fake burp. Yea, really cute and feminine, you can bet. This one, I'm pretty sure I know who she learned it from, and he's not a 'kid'. Oh well, at least we get to practice saying "excuse me" a lot.

My PATIENCE is wearing thin. As I was nursing Bradley today, Miranda put tape on my toenail. When I pulled it off, along with it came my toenail polish. Good-bye $28 bucks I just paid for my pedicure a week ago that I was hoping to stretch out for a good two months. Which leads me to this question: Why is it that just as toddlers are becoming so fluent and picking up so many new words, why is it that now is when I feel the most like cursing and find myself having to bite my tongue?

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

What's the Big Deal About Caviar?


Jeremy's employer, as a bonus, paid for he and I to have dinner at La Caille Restaurant. Jeremy had been there once for a high school dance, but I had never and actually told Jeremy last year that I wanted to do that for our 6th Anniversary, which is coming up in a couple weeks! So I was quite excited.

It was fun and definitely worth doing once, and of course it was wonderful that we didn't have to pay the bill (which was over $200 by the way!), but I don't think I'd ever go back. The food wasn't that delicious for that price. The atmosphere was wonderful, though, and now one of our dreams is to turn our patio into a nice covered atrium one day like they have there.

Anyway, I ordered the lobster bisque appetizer because I love lobster, but mostly because it came with caviar and I have never tried caviar. I cannot believe people spend huge amounts of money on that! It hardly has a distinct taste besides tasting salty, and it's really crunchy and gets stuck in your teeth. Tell me if you disagree with me...Jeremy's appetizer was crab cakes, and they were really delicous.

For dinner I had the filet mignon and Jeremy had salmon-both really good. Jeremy loves creme brulee, so he had that for dessert and did love it. I ordered the "Trio of La Caille Desserts" because I was indecisive. It is "a miniture sampling of our favorite desserts: Creme Brulee, Chocolate Chantilly Cake, & Baked Alaska". When the waitress brought me my dessert, she apologized that the chef was still making the Baked Alaska, and gave me some chocolate dipped strawberries instead until he was done. I ate most of what I could still fit in my stomach, but I was so full that I knew if they brought the Baked Alaska there was no way I could even have a bite of it. I asked for it to go, but it still wasn't ready yet and they were so apologetic and said my dessert was complimentary on them, but to tell the truth, I had no idea what Baked Alaska was, and I didn't know what I was missing, so I said not to worry about it. Well, in case you don't know either, I just googled it, and it's a cake and ice cream dessert topped with meringue. YUM. I should have waited--my food would have digested in the meantime, right? That's what the picture is, at the top, by the way.

Saturday, April 11, 2009

Nemo Party

I can't believe our Mandy is two! We had a "Finding Nemo Party" for her to celebrate since she loves anything fish. (Ask her dad why that is...) Anyway, although I think she was a little overwhelmed, she had tons of fun, too!

The kids all went fishing for prizes and here they are modeling one of their prizes, fish glasses.
'Fishing' over the banister.

I decided to make the cake because I didn't like the one from the grocery bakery. I think it turned out cute, although it was my first time using fondant and I need to practice that more! It was a vanilla cake with cream cheese filling and cream cheese frosting~delicious!
Making a wish for a terrific year of two's ahead!

Wednesday, April 8, 2009

Thumb vs. Binky

Little Brad has started to look for and--often finds--his thumb. He loved his binky for the first couple of months, but lately hasn't taken it very much. Now I catch him sucking away on his fist or thumb when he's hungry.
Miranda is a serious thumb sucker, and I don't think I want two thumb suckers. But then again, I don't know that I really have a choice, do I?
'Thumb' definitely has it's benefits over the binky, but it's not a bonus when it comes to kicking the habit as a toddler! The pediatric dentist told me he would like Miranda done sucking her thumb by age three, at the latest, which I don't really see happening without some serious and possibly painfully emotional intervention...

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Have You Ever

Have you ever gone to a movie all by yourself? I did on Monday. Miranda and I are sick right now and it made for a terrible and terribly long day for both of us. So when Jeremy got home, he said he was kicking me out of the house. He was really serious, too, so I took him up on it. I went to see Confessions of a Shopaholic. I'm sure the other 12 people in the theater were thinking, "Oh, that's too bad. That girl's friend stood her up!" Anyway, it was a great movie and it was great to get out of the house and relax for a couple hours...